How to choose your research mentor
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Birkbeck Central
Choosing the right mentor is one of the most important decisions in the life of any creative mind. This decision often paves the way to several aspects of an individual professional career and intellectual development. However, the choice is often made unawares and involuntarily, also because it is taken by individuals in the initial stages of their profession and with still limited information. The fact that it is often dictated by available opportunities (e.g. in which academy, school, or university a student is accepted, or which grants he or she manages to obtain) does not help. This paper invites young people to pause and to think about mentorship. It suggests assessing actual and potential mentors against a few basic questions. Perhaps also senior intellectuals, artists, and scholars will find it instructive to consider if the mentorship they provide is what their students and junior colleagues actually need.
Biography
Daniele Archibugi is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council at IRPPS-CNR in Rome, and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College. He has graduated at Sapienza University of Rome with Federico Caffè and taken his D. Phil. at the Universities of Sussex where he worked with Christopher Freeman and Keith Pavitt. He works on the economics and policy of science, technology and on the political theory of international relations.
As a student on science, technology and innovation policy, Archibugi has also worked on the social practices of the knowledge community. He has organized several courses devoted to graduate and doctoral students on the so called soft-skills that would-be scholars need to acquire.
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